Quarles' emblems, divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man (1800)
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · London : Printed for Alex. Hogg · leaf 148
n wanton flefh invitesFrom old worn pleafures to new choice delights jAt length, corrected by the filial rodOf his offended, but his gracious God,And laftid from fins to fighs; and, by degrees,From fighs to vows, from vov/s to bended knees jFrom bended knees to a true penfive breaft;From thence to… … Patet ^dxeri , clauditur Orbi.. Book II. EMBLEMS. - 09 Returns; and (from his finful fe!f exild) Finds a glad father, he a welcome child : O then it lives ; O then it lives involvd In fecret raptures ; pants to be diflblvd : The royal off-fpring of a fecond birth, Sets ope to heavn, and fhuts the…
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